A Study of Job Satisfaction among the Employees of Urban Cooperative Banks in Pune City

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2018 | ISSN 2321–2705

A Study of Job Satisfaction among the Employees of Urban Cooperative Banks in Pune City

Rohit Madhukar Panhale

Pacific Academy of Higher Education & Research University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

I. INTRODUCTION

The performance of an organisation depends on the level of satisfaction of its employees .A job not only provides a status to the employee but also binds him to the organisation. The concept of job satisfaction is quite significant in the context of employee morale. A person having high level of job satisfaction tends to have positive attitude towards his job and also enjoys life satisfaction. In order to increase efficiency and productivity of the organisation, positive attitude and job satisfaction of the employee is necessary. However employees as human beings are very complex and dynamic in nature, subject to a wide variety of physical, psychological and sociological needs along with their survival needs. Hence leading organisations prefer to conduct job satisfaction surveys frequently and try to maintain higher level of job satisfaction of their employees.

Job satisfaction is defined by Hoppock [1935] as ‘’the combination of psychological, physiological and environmental factors that makes a person to feel’’ ‘’I am happy at my job.’’[1] Hoppock and Spielger [1938] defined job satisfaction as ‘’employees’ emotions and attitude toward their job. It influences the emotional reaction of an employee in the workplace, which leads to positive or negative outcomes in the workplace, which leads to positive or negative outcomes in the workplace. Herzbergetal [1959] defined ‘’job satisfaction is due to good experiences and that these are due to achievement recognition, the work itself, responsibility and advancement.’’[3] Loche [1976] defined job satisfaction as a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job. [4] Lawler [1977] stated ‘job satisfaction has a profound effect on both the individual employee and the society as a whole. [5] Robbins [1998] defined job satisfaction as ‘’the willingness to exert high level of efforts towards organisational goals.’’[6] Memoria started that ‘’job satisfaction is an emotion, a feeling and a matter of perception. It focuses on general attitudes of individual employees at work, and it arises from the employee’s appraisal of experience at work.[7]

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